Date & Time
Jan. 20, 2025 (Monday) 12:25-13:00
Venue
ZOOM Webinar
Intended Audience
WIAPS Full-time Faculty/Research Associates, WIAPS Exchange Researchers/Visiting Scholars/Visiting Researchers, GSAPS MA/Ph.D. Students
Presentation
Presenter
Tamiki Hara (Assistant Professor [non-tenure-track], WIAPS)
Presentation Theme
How Do We Understand Supported Authoritarian Regimes? A Comparison of the Duterte Regime and the French Second Empire
※The presentation will be conducted in English.
Abstract
In recent years, a phenomenon known as “democratic backsliding” has gained worldwide attention. In many countries, it has occurred with democratic support. However, existing studies have not discussed this contradiction head-on. This presentation provides a new explanatory framework for this phenomenon by taking the concept of “Bonapartism” as a democratically supported authoritarian regime and comparing the Duterte regime in the Philippines, which is considered a typical example of “democratic backsliding,” with the Second French Empire of Napoleon III. In conclusion, I argue that the phenomenon of “democratic backsliding” is (1) a denial of liberalism but not of democracy, and (2) an opportunity to build a system for the provision of public goods and to develop state capacity.
